Thursday, September 8, 2011

Deborah Buckley an assistant superintendent in the Buffalo Board of Education grants department in City Hall was escorted from her office last week put on an administrative leave, a move warranted by the outgoing Superintendent James A. Williams, the Buffalo News disclosed yesterday.

The Buffalo school board met several times since the incident happened though some frustrated about the pace it's taken to resolved the matter according to West District member Ralph Hernandez interviewed after the latest board committee meeting yesterday and a decision left for next week's board meeting.

And there are questions of asking an outside auditor to review the grants department. Interestingly, the matter can not be sent to the board's ethic commission because the term of six of its members expired that records showed the Buffalo News disclosed.

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"Let’s be honest: we need a lot more well-off, well-educated white folks with a personal stake in both charter schools and education reform in general if we’re going to take reform to the next level, both politically and operationally.Whitney Tilson, hedge fund manager and major funding angel for the school privatizing Democrats for Education Reform, thinks there’s not enough rich, educated white folks.( Preaprez) click photo to his blog.

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Elephants in the room: Buffalo Attendance teachers

Organizational Study Buffalo Public Schools Final Report

Reinstate the Attendance Teachers in the Buffalo Schools

Fifteen Attendance teachers laid-off in the Buffalo Public School System in 2005, causing a decrease in student attendance from 2005-2010, especially in the high schools from 86% to 74%, and in the at-risk elementary student population.

must review the data from the building level attendance records to determine how successful its comprehensive attendance policy is in maintaining or improving attendance in each of its school buildings.

If building level attendance records show a decline, the board is required to determine if it is necessary to revise its policy to make changes to improve overall pupil attendance in the coming year.

Hiring more Attendance Teachers is an effective intervention method to improve declining attendance. Buffalo Public Schools have 12 Attendance Officers for over 33,000 students.

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Hedge fund investors and charter schools

"There’s a lot of money to be made in charter schools, and I’m not talking just about the for-profit management companies that run a lot of these charter schools. It turns out that at the tail end of the Clinton administration in 2000, Congress passed a new kind of tax credit called a New Markets tax credit. What this allows is it gives enormous federal tax credit to banks and equity funds that invest in community projects in underserved communities and it’s been used heavily now for the last several years for charter schools."

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Diane Ravitch

"When someday we trace back how large segments of our public school system were privatized and how so many millions of public dollars ended up in the pockets of high-flying speculators instead of being used to reduce class size, repair buildings, and improve teacher quality, we will look to the origins of the Race to the Top and to the interlocking group of foundations, politicians, and entrepreneurs who created it."

Susan Ohanian

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Rising in active revolt! While teachers are blamed , and expected to toil harder these days from sun up to sun down as more is asked of them daily, still no one is talking about increasing their salary unless it is merit pay for a few.

School Law amended to allow substitute teachers to collect unemployment

Both the NYS Assembly and the Senate collaborated and sponsored an Act to amend (8/09 and 1/10) the labor law to allow substitute teachers to collect unemployment benefits during vacations periods---summer months.

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I am a blogger, certified public school administrator and school attendance teacher.
I studied American education history at the doctoral level defended a thesis on the Puerto Rican bibliophile Arthur A. Schomburg (1874-1938). I have lectured extensively, serving as a curator of exhibits on Schomburg in many institutions in Central and Western New York. I am one of the few Schomburg scholars today lecturing on his Puerto Rican heritage, and his contributions to the history of American education and black intellectual history. Also, a tenured school attendance teacher, served as chairperson of the New York State Attendance Teachers Association and executive board member. Also, past delegate chair, delegate, alternate, council of delegates in the union, and New York State Delegate to the NEA Representative Assembly.

America's Private Public Schools

Why doesn't Arne Duncan open up these schools for the urban poor instead of Charters?This report, identified public schools whose doors are effectively closed to poor children. These institutions— generally found in wealthy urban enclaves or well-heeled suburbs—educate many of the children of America’s elite while proudly waving the “public school” flag. But they hardly embody the “common school” ideal. " (M.F. Petrilli & F. Scull, 2/10)